Liotiidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).Gofas, S. (2013). Liotiidae Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196896 on 2013-09-07
Description The head of the animal is proboscidiform. The epipodial line has a pair of conical lobes and three pairs of cirri.
The white shell has a turbiniform or discoidal shape. It shows longitudinal ribs or is clathrate. The shell shows a fine lamellar sculpture. The circular aperture is feebly nacreous. The thick peristome is continuous and shows a callous varix. The multispiral operculum is hispid, corneous and has a soft, calcareous outer layer (intritacalx) formed of pearly beads that are disposed spirally.G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
Taxonomy
2005 taxonomy The family Liotiidae belongs to the superfamily Turbinoidea, according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family consists of the three following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005): Liotiinae Gray, 1850 - synonym: Cyclostrematidae P. Fischer, 1885; McLean (1987) ranked it as subfamily of Turbinidae.MCLEAN, J. H. 1987. Angariinae and Liotiinae—the primitive living trochaceans. Ann. Rept. Western Soc. Malacol. 19: 16 † Brochidiinae Yochelson, 1956 † Dichostasiinae Yochelson, 1956
2008 taxonomy Liotiidae was moved to the redefined superfamily Trochoidea according to Williams et al. (2008).Williams S. T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (September 2008) "Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined". Zoologica Scripta 37(5): 483-506.
Genera Genera in this family include: subfamily Liotiinae Austroliotia Cotton, 1948 Bathyliotina Habe, 1961 Circumstella Laseron, 1958 Cithna A. Adams, 1863 Cordarene S.-I Huang, C.-L. Chen & M.-H. Lin, 2018 Cyclostrema Marryat, 1818 Dentarene Iredale, 1929Gofas, S. (2011). Dentarene Iredale, 1929. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391522 on 2011-01-21 † Klebyella Gründel, 1998 Liotia Gray, 1842Rosenberg, G. (2010). Liotia Gray, 1842. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415570 on 2011-01-21 - type genus Liotina Munier-Chalmas, 1885WoRMS (2010). Liotina Munier-Chalmas, 1885. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413462 on 2011-01-21 Macrarene Hertlein & Strong, 1951Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2011). Macrarene Hertlein & Strong, 1951. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=528079 on 2011-01-21 Moniliotina S.-I Huang, M.-H. Lin & C.-L. Chen, 2019 Munditia Finlay, 1926WoRMS (2010). Munditia Finlay, 1926. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196958 on 2011-01-21 Pterarene Sakurai & Habe, 1977 Rhodinoliotia Tomlin & Shackleford, 1915 Rufanula Barnard, 1963
subfamily † Dichostasiinae † Dichostasia Yochelson, 1956 - type genus of the subfamily Dichostasiinae
Not in a subfamily †Pareuchelus O. Boettger, 1907 Rotaliotina S.-I Huang, 2023
Genera brought into synonymy Conicella Laseron, 1954: synonym of Wanganella Laseron, 1954 Liochrysta Laseron, 1958: synonym of Pseudoliotia Tate, 1898
References
Nomura, S. (1932) Mollusca from the raised beach deposits of the Kwantô region. The Science Reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University, Sendai, Japan, second series (Geology), 15, 65–141, pl. 10. Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526
External links
Gray, J. E. (1850). In: Gray, M. E., Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August)